This is in reply to Guy Bourrie’s column of June 17 concerning Vice President Cheney and Halliburton. I wonder if Bourrie understands contracting business at all? Who else is big enough to handle such contracts? There are only a certain few companies in this country that can handle a huge job of that sort. How do you bid it?
I have bid enough jobs in my life to know that you can’t. You give it to a contractor, cost plus. If I had worked for Halliburton, knew what they could handle and was confidant they could do the job, I’d give it to them in a heartbeat.
That is done all the time. That big job isn’t like bidding on an airplane or bidding on building a ship; it is huge and undetermined exactly what the scope of work is. If you try to pin a company down on a firm bid price, it would more than likely cost more because of the change orders.
Paul Lowell, Rumford
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